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POWDER. PACKAGE. AiPLIOATION FILED D120.24,1908.

929,553. Patented July 27,1909;

UNITE SA r mun FATE POWDER-PAGKAGE.

No. 929,553. Specification of Application filed December 24, 1908.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, /VILLIAM OHUBBUOK, of Arverne, Long Island, State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Powder-Packages, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactspecification, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

The object of my invention is to provide a convenient and serviceablemanner of packing powder such as insect powder, toilet powders, and allother powdered or granular materials, in such a way that not only will apackage be provided to contain the powder,

but this package may itself be used as a means for blowing the powderfrom the package. In this manner the goods may be packed at the factoryand sold to the consumer in the same ackage and that package used as ameans for applying the powder after which, owing to the extremecheapness of the package, it may be thrown away without material waste.I attain this end by employing a bag preferably, though by no meansnecessarlly, of paper mamtalnmg a resilient means for distending it ofsuch nature that the powder may also be con taincd in the bag and thebag having a nozzle or outlet means, so that upon compressing the bag inones hand a sort of bellows will be created and a quantity of the powderblown out in a jet through the nozzle.

My invention involves other features of importance all of which will befully set forth hereinafter and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings which illustrate as anexample the preferred embodiment of the invention, in which drawings,Figure l is a perspective view of thepackage ready for sale; and Fig. 2is a section of the same 0; indicates the bag which as I have said ispreferably of paper though it may be of rubber, a woven fabric or indeedany flexible material impervious or substantially impervious to air. Inpractice, particularly where a paper bag is employed, the bag may beprinted with an advertisement of its contents, such for example as thatshown in Letters Patent. Patented July 27, 1909.

Serial No. 469,066.

b in the drawing indicates the means for distending the bag and thepowder both of which are contained in the bag and fill the same. Themeans for distending the bag may be various. I have found common woodshavings (termed eXcelsior) an excellent material since it is resilient,light and cheap. Other materials, however, may be employed such as horsehair, metallic wool or a metal or rubber spring. When excelsior is usedas in the drawing, the interstices between the fibers are filled withthe powder in such a way that the bag is completely filled with theexcelsior and powder.

0 indicates the nozzle or outlet means which is preferably ribbed as at0 to enable the mouth of the bag to be closed around it and fastened bya cord (Z. This nozzle or outlet means 0 is preferably in the form of atin tube, but it may be of various other materials, for instance I haveemployed an ordinary quill with advantage.

In the use of the invention the bag is filled with the powder anddistending means and then its mouth is closed around the nozzle 0, Thepackage is now finished and ready for sale. It is sold to the consumerin this form and by compressing the bag a bellows-like action resultscausing a quantity of the powder to be carried out through the nozzlewith the out-rushing air, a jet or blast of powder being thus createdwhich may be directed accurately to the place where it is to be applied.Upon releasing the pressure on the bag the resilient means distends thebag and a quantity of air is drawn back which may be again blown outwith a further blast or jet of powder upon the next operation. Theseoperations may be continued from time to time as the powder isto be usedand the extreme cheapness of the package allows of its being thrown awaywhen the powder is exhausted without any material waste.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. As a new article of, manufacture, an impervious bag withan outlet anda resilient fibrous mass in the bag for distending it and goodscontained therein in powdered or granular form and filling theinterstices Fig. 1.

of the fibrous mass.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing Witnesses.

WILLIAM OHUBBUOK.

2. As a new article of manufacture, an impervious bag With an outlet, aresilient fibrous mass in the bag for distending it, goods containedtherein in powdered or granular form and filling the interstices of theresilient members and a nozzle around which the outlet of the bag isclosed.

Witnesses:

l/V. SCHROEDER, F. C. WICKELUS.

